Musings with a Theology Student on Resurrection

by Kirsten Christensen

He tried to tell me

it’s all symbolic—

We’ll all live on

he agreed

but only as flickered hues

of memory

in the minds of those

who follow us;

And Christ, too

lives on

said he

but only as thoughts and deeds

in the lives of those

who follow Him.

How tragic to think

to take from man

the purest mortal hope

of limb and joint

in perfect form

with brightest recollection

before the pleasing bar.

Oh yes, young scholar,

it’s all symbolic;

Remember His sepulchre—

it lay empty

but held in its

emptiness

the fullness

of a flawless plan.

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